eating the animal in large chunks. This food and habit being common to all the Loyalty Aplonis, and forming a not inconsiderable percentage of their food. Both sexes are easily lured by squeaking calls as long as observer remains unobserved, but quickly take fright on seeing humans. The species suffers some perse- cution by natives for food, youths usually setting noose snare for it at a ripe partly eaten paw paw. Nests from September to December and January and odd few may nest outside those months. Nests in hollows and cavities, eggs 2 to 4. (Light blue? native hearsay only). LICHMERA INCANA INCANA (LATHAM):- One of the commonest species on the island. Anywhere where coconut palms are its numbers per acre are enormously high. An exceedingly active pugnacious species, identical in habits with birds of this species in New Hebrides and other Loyalty Islands. It feeds on nectar and small insects, often pursuing a small moth or butterfly or winged insect on the wing and capturing it. It feeds much of nectar attracted insects with the nectar but entirely non nectar insects form a large part of its diet. It must do an enormous amount of good to agriculture in keeping insect pests in check on coconuts. It also frequents the margins of forests and scrub lands for a short distance in, but never very far into such habitats. Mangroves are also a fabourite habitat and numbers in such habitat are very high. It will feed across swamps, but not if these have no coconuts about them. A true and regular guide for its